Creation of a Children's Picturebook
The Visual Sequence and the Narrative
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: The Visual Sequence and the Narrative
Overview
“With examples from art history, picturebooks and in my own work, we will see the elements of the visual sequence as the basis for the readability of the narrative: causality, consistency, actor and setting, rhythm and movement. ”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: The Visual Sequence and the Narrative, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of a Children's Picturebook. Learn how to plan and create your picturebook project from scratch combining narrative and illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“Visual Sequence and Narrative We've already learned about the elements that create a scene, but to create visual storytelling, we need something else, which is time. In this lesson, we'll look at how to unite multiple scenes to create a visual sequence. Let's check it out. I invite you to look at good examples of visual sequences in the history of art, which really is much more than the history of illustration, because it's usually meant to communicate something, to narrate with the images. This image from "The Book of the Dead" from ancient Egypt was a travel guide, not exactly for tourism...”
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Course summary for: Creation of a Children's Picturebook
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Children's Illustration, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Claudia Rueda
A course by Claudia Rueda
Colombian author and illustrator Claudia Rueda is a New York Times best-selling author with over thirty published illustrated books. Her work has been published in the US, Mexico, Spain, and has been translated into more than fifteen languages in Asia and Europe. She was also nominated for major awards such as Hans Cristian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren.
Claudia studied Law and Arts and worked as a political caricaturist in Colombia. She then furthered her studies in children’s book illustration at UC Berkeley. She has a master’s in creative writing from Lesley University and won the Billie M. Levy investigation grant from the Children’s Literature Collection from the North-West. Claudia is also a teacher in the creative writing masters at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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